Harare - Post Report Question and Answers
How do you send and receive your letters and package mail? Are local postal facilities adequate?
Local postal facilities are not advisable. We use the embassy's diplomatic pouch to receive mail (with lots of limitations on liquids, batteries, etc.). Sending letter mail is easy, packages less so. - Sep 2025
Diplomatic pouch, which (as always with pouch) has a lot of restrictions. Local postal facilities are not reliable, though I believe some people have used DHL successfully when they had to. - Jan 2024
Pouch, DHL and FedEx were also available. - May 2021
Diplomatic pouch. Amazon orders usually take fewer than two weeks. I would not consider local post... - Feb 2020
Pouch. God bless the pouch. I believe local mail is somewhat reliable, but takes a long time and customs is problematic with packages. - Feb 2019
We use the Pouch. If we place an order from Amazon for next day shipping, it will arrive to us in about 1 week. Letters to the States take about one week. The pouch is AMAZING, with the only limitation being liquid amounts and batteries. Your items will get rejected if they have a prohibited item. We can use FedEx and DHL. I used FedEx for a sensitive document. It arrived in 3 business days and costs me $44. People often say that mail is expensive, but we are in Southern Africa and your mail has a long journey to the States. - Apr 2018
Diplomatic pouch but other services are available. - Sep 2017
Via local mail, things won't arrive and if they arrive in the PO Box of your organization it often takes months. - Jul 2017
EMS is reliable, otherwise FedEx and DHL - Apr 2016
Via the diplomatic pouch. - Dec 2013
We send and receive letters via the Diplomatic Pouch with our embassy. - Jul 2013
Dip pouch. - Dec 2008
We have pouch. Zimbabwe has a postal service that seems to work in country still, i have no idea about international but would be surprised if it worked. - Sep 2008
